Bathurst relaxes ban on trick-or-treating for some teens, rolls back curfew

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Bathurst relaxes ban on trick-or-treating for some teens, rolls back curfew

Changes that roll back a controversial Halloween bylaw that banned trick-or-treating for older teenagers and set a curfew on the pursuit of sugary loot don't go far enough, says the deputy mayor of a northern New Brunswick community.

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The new rules now forbid anyone older than 16 from trick-or-treating and relaxes the curfew to 8 p.m.

The third reading of the bylaw will take place in early October. (Terri Trembath/CBC)

Changes that roll back a controversial Halloween bylaw that banned trick-or-treating for older teenagers and set a curfew on the pursuit of sugary loot don't go far enough, says the deputy mayor of a northern New Brunswick community.

"I wanted to demolish it altogether but I got outvoted," Kim Chamberlain said in an interview Tuesday of the Bathurst city bylaw that made it illegal for teens over the age of 14 to parade door-to-door dressed as ghosts and goblins, and set a 7 p.m. cutoff.

"At least we were able to make some modifications."

The new rules — expected to pass third reading in early October — now forbid anyone older than 16 from trick-or-treating and relaxes the curfew to 8 p.m.